Wiranto

Wiranto (4 April 1947-) was Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian Military from February 1998 to October 1999.

Biography
Wiranto was born on 4 April 1947 in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, and he joined the Indonesian Army in 1968. In 1989, he was appointed aide-de-camp to President Suharto, and alongside Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Agum Gumelar, AM Hendropriyono, and Faird Zainuddin, he was one of the top five secularist officers in the army. In February 1998, Wiranto was made Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian Military, and he was involved in murdering Indonesian activists as well as brutally suppressing FRETILIN freedom fighters in East Timor. Under his rule, 2,000 East Timorese were killed by the Indonesians and Jakarta-supported militias, while 50,000 were displaced.